ALPINIA

(Lat.),n.f. A?l(a3l)-pi?n'i?-a8, From Alpinus, an Italian botanist of the 16th century, in whose honor it was named. Fr., alpinie. A genus of plants of the natural order Zingiber aceæ, distinguished by the presence of thick aromatic rhizomes and flowers disposed in clusters. [B,19.]—A. alba. See AMomum medium. [L, Breas allughas. Syn.: Hellenia allughas {Willdenow], Mala inschikua, An Indian species, made by Roscoe, furnishing a variety of galangal root. It is used externally as an anodyne and internally as an antidote to poisons, as an emmenagogue and provocative of the lochia, and in gout and calculous disorders. [B, 172, 180.]—A. aromatic a. SŸ'n.: Paco-seroca minor, multi caulis. A species described by Aublet as growing in Guiana, distinguished hy its multiple stems. Its roots are carminative and stomachic. [B, 187.]—A. calcar at a. A species closely resembling À. khulinjan. B. inj A. card amomum. See ELETTARIA card amomum.—A. chinensis. An Asiatic species of which A, khulinjan is regarded as a variety. [B, 172.]—A. cost at a. [Roxburgh]. See ELETTARIA card amomum medium.— A. exalt at a [Aley]. A British Guiana species, regarded by some as being the source of the Corowatti, or Khorowattl, root. [B.]—A. galanga [Swartz]. Syn.: Maranta galanga [Linneus}, A species growing in India, furnishing the larger galangal root. It is from 6 to 7 feet high when in flower, with lanceolate, white, smooth, petiolate leaves and pale-green fragrant flowers in terminal panicles. [B, 33, 177.)—A. khulinjan. A variety growing in Madras. Its rhizome resembles the le er galangal root, and is used as a carminative, stomachic, ape and excitant, and A%l(a5l)-pi?j(pi?g)e*n-u (u ), Fr., for the relief of incontinence of urine. [B, 172.]—A. media [Spren- See ELETTARIA card amomum medium.—A. nutans [Roscoe]. resembling the A. galanga, which furnishes an inferior variety of galangal root. Bye: of ficin arum [Hance]. A species growing in China, furnishing the ordinary galangal root of commerce. [B, 33.]—A. odorata. A variety ‘growing in British Guiana, the leaves of which are applied by the natives to produce sweating. (i 63.j—A. paco-seroca. See A, aromatic a.—A. pyramid at a [Blume]. A species resembling the 4. galanga. |B.]— A. racemosa [Linnæus]. Paco-seroca. A species growing in Guiana and the West Indies, of which the root, flowers, and fruit have an aromatic odor and a pungent, bitter taste. The root is used as an application to malignant ulcers and cancers. _ [B, 180.]— x pital lacquin]. See Costus spicatus.—A. tubulata. See . exalt at a. to the Zingiber aceæ of Endlicher. [B.] ALPINIÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. A*l(a®])-pi*n'i?-e(a3-e?), A division of zingiberaceous plants, made by Blume and Endlicher, comprising Alpinia and allied genera. [B, 170.]